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MS Mus. 1774/3/3
- Record Id:
- 040-002919751
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002899097
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100025525175.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- MS Mus. 1774/3/3
- Title:
- Richard Arnell: Various Short Vocal Works
- Scope & Content:
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- 1. ff. 1-3. 'A Lifeboat Song', Op. 84 (a). For unison voices and piano. Words: Arnell. Dyeline copy of undated autograph score (1 bifolium in cover, 12-stave paper, 350 x 280 mm).
- 2. ff. 4-12. 'The Summer is Coming', Op. 96. Duet for soprano, mezzo-soprano, and piano. Words: Bryan Guinness. Dyeline copy of autograph score (20-stave paper, 1 bifolium, ff. 4-9 (pp. 1-4)) signed and dated in the original score: Plymtree, 22 August 1961. With a second copy of the dyeline score incorporating pencil additions , ff. 10-11 ('Added choir Feb 13 1989'). Also with autograph clarinet obbligato part (blue ink and pencil, f. 12). Scores and part enclosed within a title-page bifolium.
- 3. 13-19. 'Pensum Latinum', Op. 98. Scored for two soprano and alto voices, incorporating rehearsal piano part. Dyeline copy of autograph score (12-stave paper, 280 x 190 mm), pp. 1-14. Words: Philip Vellacott.
- 4. ff. 20-33. Song Cycle: 'Love Poems by Thomas Hardy', Op. 109. Seven settings for bass voice and piano: (1) 'A Week'; (2) 'Sun on the Bookcase'; (3) ' We Sat at the Window'; (4) 'Once at Swanage'; (5) 'The Division'; (6) 'The Wound'; (7) 'A Leaving'. Dyeline copy of autograph score (title-page and pp. 1-24). Signed in the original score at the end of the work (August, Brunswick, Maine); year (1968) subsequently added to title page. 14-stave paper (320 x 240 mm).
- 5. ff. 34. 'Hospitaliday', Op. 116/F. Brief jingle for four voices. Autograph score, blue ink (1 bifolium, 12-stave paper, 310 x 235 mm). Dated: 1969.
- 6. ff. 37-53. 'Cretaceous Intermission', Op. 120. Words: Ronald Duncan. Song cycle in four parts, for soprano and piano: (1) 'The First Flowers'; (2) 'Insects'; (3) 'The Fish'; (4) 'The Animals'. Dyeline autograph score, ff. 44-53 (pp. 1-19, 305 x 255 mm), signed and dated at the end of the work in the original score: London, 31 March 1971. Score annotated (red ink): 'The suggested transpositions may be ignored in whole or in part / Aug. 1983. R.A.' With computer-printed score (A4, ff. 37-43 (pp. 1-14)). Dedicated to Lavinia Lascelles.
- 7. f. 54. 'Ring Bells - Happy New Year', Op. 132a. Brief jingle for six voices. Autograph score, black ink (1 bifolium), signed.
- 8. ff. 57-60. 'Words and Sounds', Op. 145. For narrator and piano. Autograph score (1 bifolium), signed and dated: 'Ynot L'Lenra' [Tony Arnell], 1984. With autograph words (ff. 59-60). Premiere (noted on title-page): Trinity College of Music (Hinde Street Church, London), 6 July 1984.
- 9. f. 62. 'Happy Birthday!' Op. 149.1. Photocopy (A4, 1 f.) of autograph score signed and dated in the original score: 20 June 1985. Words and sounds for Michael Scott.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Music Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002899097
036-002919739
040-002919751 - Is part of:
- MS Mus. 1774 : Richard Arnell Collection
MS Mus. 1774/3 : Richard Arnell: Vocal Works
MS Mus. 1774/3/3 : Richard Arnell: Various Short Vocal Works - Hierarchy:
- 032-002899097[0003]/036-002919739[0003]/040-002919751
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: MS Mus. 1774
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
ii, 62 folios
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1961
- End Date:
- 1989
- Date Range:
- 1961-1989
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Duncan, Ronald Frederick Henry, playwright and poet, 1914-1982
Guinness, Bryan Walter, 2nd Baron Moyne, lawyer, poet and writer, 1905-1992
Hardy, Thomas, OM, novelist, 1840-1928,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121333830
Vellacott, Philip, classical scholar, translator, 1907-1997